loved one is agony. There are no textbook approaches, no easy answers, that will take away the pain, but we can offer help to people who are facing the worst hurt of all: death. Our own view of death will inevitably be conveyed in our relationships with those experiencing death. As Christians, then, there is no other alternative but to bring a faith approach to our ministry to the grieving. And this approach provides the only true comfort and help. Death is inevitable, universal,